The volume is dedicated to the anniversary of Prof. univ. emeritus Valeriu Stoica PhD – Founding Partner - and contains a number of 27 legal essays, testimony to the search for truth "in any form for the sake of knowledge itself", as Plato said, and to the discovery of justice, through work and thorough and continuous teaching of at Master Valeriu Stoica.

The authors, lawyers from STOICA & ASOCIAȚII, describe their path in search of justice and balance, by combining Professor Valeriu Stoica's passion for civil law, with the specialization of law practice in multiple fields and with the construction of an international dimension of this practice.

In this anthology, some of the most famous and representative articles written by Gerard Bradley, a renowned law professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA), were brought together. The red thread that connects these texts, which seem to deal with different and specific problems of law, moral philosophy, political philosophy or economics, is the assumed perspective inspired by the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, adapted with a lot of institutional tact and philosophical subtlety to pressing contemporary problems.

The anthology written by Prof. univ. Douglas J. Den Uyl PhD - Vice President Liberty Fund (Indiana, USA) - and by Prof. univ. Douglas B. Rasmussen PhD - University of St. John's (New York, USA) explores, among other things, how individual rights and human fulfilment are intertwined. It is shown that individual rights are essential to preserving the possibility for everyone to fulfil himself, living among other people, being those that provide the social and political context in which individuals apply the virtues necessary to reach the ideal of human fulfilment.

The book is a collection of articles written and published by Valeriu Stoica - Founding Partner, STOICA & ASOCIAȚII - in “Dilema Veche” magazine.

"What is under the name, perhaps pretentious, of the science of civil law is a never-ending intellectual endeavour, a search for the ideal model of civil legal relationship" declared, in 2004, Prof. univ. emeritus Valeriu Stoica PhD. A series of legal articles, published over time by Valeriu Stoica - Founding Partner, are brought together in the book.

The book is a collection of texts written and published by Valeriu Stoica - Founding Partner, STOICA & ASOCIAȚII - in the period 2009-2023.

"To say about modern culture that it is "secularized" can mean, on the one hand, that it is about a world from which the sacred has disappeared. On the other hand, it may mean that we are talking about a world that continues to be tied to its Christian roots, despite all its attempts to emancipate itself from Christianity." said Wolfhart Pannenberg.

"The original and equally creative interpretation offered by Jacques Maritain in this work, as in many other writings that preceded or, as the case may be, followed the 9/10 Lessons on Natural Law and Natural Law, is not only necessary reading, but and welcome for all those interested or passionate about the extremely acute ontological and epistemological issues of natural law and natural law or the equally burning question of their delimitation in the face of positive law and the corresponding positive law [...]" stated Univ. Prof. Marian Nicolae PhD – Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest – about the work.

"If, in the philosophy of law, the truth is revealed beyond our expectation, history, in any case, allows us to better understand the systems of others. It is thus the best and necessary key to the study of comparative law and the history of law." said Michel Villey.

The volume looks at the extraordinary political and geographical expansion of contemporary constitutionalism, faithfully reflecting the intellectual options common to the two authors, which clarify realities and constitutional theories often passed over in silence. In the face of the current European construction, the question arises: "If there is no state without a constitution, can there be a constitution without a state?"

In Romania, the current Civil Code entered into force on October 1, 2011, replacing the old Civil Code. The normative act regulates the patrimonial and non-patrimonial relations between persons, as subjects of civil law. The Civil Code, translated into English, is useful for all legal professionals (lawyers, legal advisers, arbitrators, etc.) who draft documents in English on issues involving its application.

Originally designed for teaching purposes, to make it easier for students to understand the notions with which the author begins his course in "Criminal Law. The Special Part", the work becomes a true literary work, an essay on the past and especially the future of criminal law. of incrimination.

Representing a collection of studies in honor of Professor Valeriu Stoica, the volume was designed to be a modest homage on his 65 birthday. The general theme of the volume is the evolution of the polyvalent concepts of Rights, Freedoms and Powers at the beginning of the third millennium, these being the central themes of the studies and contributions made by Professor Valeriu Stoica: politics (or public policies), public ”(human rights) or “private law”.

Humor, self-irony, psychology, brain chemistry and the secrets of those who have made wine a passion, a profession and an art: sommelier - those who answer all unanswered questions. Is wine really an art? The answer is more about how you define art than what you think about wine, and that's why it's a profound philosophical question that shouldn't be answered by those who come with a pocket bottle to a thousand-dollar wine bottle party.

"The reader who will have the patience to go through this volume will be greatly rewarded because the following pages are not an arid hermeneutics of the customs and legal regulations of the old Romanian law and the beginning of modern law, but they make up a vivid and attractive image, but also comprehensive and accurate of the relevant facts of life, in their evolution, which have linked and bind the Romanians, in their entire history, to vines and wine."Valeriu stoic

The album offers a selection of 14 representative wineries from our country, different in style and history, but united by an interest in quality and innovation. There are places where the owners set out to create a certain atmosphere, to tell a story, thus offering unique experiences to wine lovers and travelers. The 14 wineries that invite us to a tasting and reveal their story in the album are: Rasova, Jidvei, Avincis, Prince Știrbey Domain, Corcova Roy & Dâmboviceanu, Halewood: Urlățeanu Mansion, Lacerta, Rotenberg, Segarcea Crown Domain, Liliac, Bauer, Halewood - Rhein & CIE Azuga Cellars 1892, Recaș and Clos des Colombes.

The cult of the wine and of the great religions reflected in art and literature: in the Greek Symposium or Dionysus in the middle of the vineyards, rendered on an amphora in Villa Giulia in Rome, in the texts of Euripides (considered a foreshadowing of the Christian Eucharist), in The Drunkenness of Noah in Genesis and in the City of God of Blessed Augustine. The wedding in Cana of Galilee offers another episode in which the water turns into wine, a fascinating story with echoes to the wine rivers of Allah's Paradise, celebrated by the Sufi Omar Ibn al-Farid. The sacred books and rituals of the great religions of the world have always been closely related to wine.

A charming encyclopedia with color plates, an unexpected story filtered through the grape, from the sunniest vineyards to the most elegant bottles of elixir. Fascination and magic, imagination and knowledge of millennia, anthropology, archeology, classical history and, above all, art in "liquid state".

The bottle of wine. Over the English Channel, in the shape of an onion, pear, then cylindrical and with straight shoulders. In France, rather ovoid, with sloping shoulders, both in Champagne and in Burgundy or Bordeaux where, from the nineteenth century, all cylindrical shapes with straight shoulders were imposed. But the creators went further with their imagination: the Rhine whistle, the straw-covered bottle from Tuscany, the gourd-shaped bocksbeutel from Franconia, the clavelin bottle from Jura, the small bottle of elongated-necked Tokaji or the constancy from South Africa. Without the invention of glass, wines could never have aged away from air and light, and never could the personality of the regions and the year of production have manifested themselves so brilliantly.

Wine art and culture • Wine tasting and discussions • Wine and its critics • Wine beauty • Wine metaphysics • Wine politics and economics • Philosophy of language • Philosophy of perception • Aesthetics • Metaphysics • Ethics • Political philosophy

Wine is like the man. You never know how far to respect him and when to despise him, when to love him and when to start hating him, how much generosity he is capable of and when he turns into a demon. Let us not be more ruthless with wine than we are with ourselves, and let us recognize in its taste the warmth, strength, light, color, and mystery, all the gifts of nature, crowned with the fragrance of the land, where the gods were invited and found a home. Ad augusta per angusta. Try to stay young like a Beaujolais and grow old like a Burgundy wine! Lucid and analytical essays, written by leading philosophers, linguists, biochemists, producers and wine critics, in a philosophical approach to an eternal experience.

A charming suite of colorful characters and ideas, famous places and fascinating stories from the dizzying universe of wine creators. Richard Vine had a brilliant idea: to refine the most fragrant stories about wine and drip them in a brilliant way. In short, a "literary premiere cru".

What is wine? • How is wine made? • Red, white or rosé? • How to choose wine from a store and how to choose the wine shop • How to choose wine from the restaurant menu • Ten ways to choose the right bottle • What the bottle reveals • What the label reveals • Tasting terminology • The right wine at the right food • Restaurant rituals • The most beloved wines • The bottle to make the most impression • The bottle to give away • The most common ten myths about wine • Ten capital tips • Let's not forget the grapes • The jargon of wine

A perfect introduction to the art of wine, a practical and candid approach, with professional, intelligent and vibrant graphics, which simplifies complex information, so that any novice will be able to choose the right wine for the most refined companies. Wine regions, detailed maps, wine varieties, types of bottles, glass collections, hundreds of flavors, thousands of tastes, prices and selection suggestions, sophisticated dishes and an exquisite tasting.

The book is an investigation of the complex way in which our literature has reflected the transformations of wine culture, as well as (in subsidiary) of potatoric culture as a whole. It highlights, with the undisputed force of material evidence, the fact that literature has the ability to record, sometimes with astonishing sensitivity, the metamorphoses of material civilization. the way in which the literary text relates to one of the defining objects of the Romanian identity: wine.

"Through her poetry, Liliana Ursu builds bridges between spaces and times. She makes maps of the soul that stretch from their birthplaces to beyond the ocean. Like Marcel Proust, Liliana Ursu recreates her beloved city, the streets of her childhood, the atmosphere of the landscapes of yesteryear starting from the memory of the senses and thus her lyrical universe becomes warm, palpable, full of color and perfume. Each poem is a gift given to the reader with love and grace. Liliana Ursu's poetry is healing and kind. ”Monica Pillat

"Whoever has the patience to read and recite carefully each poem by Radu R. Șerban, raising all the antennae of sensitivity and keeping open all the sensors of aesthetic reception, will discover a great poet, with a strong and original stylistic matrix, beyond , subject only to its own poetic norms. In order to build this unique stylistic matrix, the poet did not have time to write a large-scale work, but he managed to compose a very deep one. As narrow as it is horizontally, the poetic space expands its dimension vertically. In the last quarter of the last century, only Daniel Turcea and Virgil Mazilescu managed such a performance. ”Valeriu Stoica

"Through her poetry, Liliana Ursu builds bridges between spaces and times. She makes maps of the soul that stretch from their birthplaces to beyond the ocean. Like Marcel Proust, Liliana Ursu recreates her beloved city, the streets of her childhood, the atmosphere of the landscapes of yesteryear starting from the memory of the senses and thus her lyrical universe becomes warm, palpable, full of color and perfume. Each poem is a gift given to the reader with love and grace. Liliana Ursu's poetry is healing and kind. ”Monica Pillat

"The anthology invites the reader to" taste "the wine of Hellenic and Roman mythologies, to be penetrated by the shadows, echoes and reverberations of places like Balchik, for example, Greco-Latin and Thracian cultural crossroads. Ancient characters such as Eros, Pan, Minerva, Dionysos, Apollo, nymphs and fauns, who associate the frenzy of music with the pleasure of drink and love, but also vestiges of ancient civilizations such as: amphorae, urns, sarcophagi, keepers of absence, are invoked by Ion Pillat in the process of filtering his own feelings, decanted through reading and contemplation. The old wine that connects the present with the past is also symbolically related to the waters of the sea that constantly swallow the shores [...] “Monica Pillat and Dana Vasiliu

The new bilingual album includes 19 representative buildings, Courthouses and Tribunals - mostly classified as historical monuments - which are landmarks of architectural heritage not only of the cities in which they were built, but also of the entire country. Each case is carefully documented, presented with high quality photos and accompanied by the most interesting aspects from an architectural, cultural and historical point of view. All these headquarters of courts and judges on the territory of Romania reveal a gesture of valorization of an essential patrimony for the history of Romania.

Dan Teodorovici manages to document himself very thoroughly for this volume, in which he has as central pillar George Matei Cantacuzino, a prominent figure in the architectural and cultural history of Romania. A volume in which Cantacuzino's exciting biography combines with his great architectural projects, George Matei Cantacuzino - hybrid modernism, is a volume that must be read by all those who appreciate quality things and special personalities.

Still fascinated by what is hidden behind the faces of those who keep, despite the different rhythm of the world around them, the secrets of some virtually endangered trades, Răzvan Voiculescu captures in this album fragments of stories left, as if in a space timeless, of people who knew how to make their profession a lifestyle. Dor de ROST is made with the team of "meaning seekers" formed by Dana Graură and Mircea Groza. New stories, new faces, but the same curiosity of discovery and the same desire for knowledge and self-knowledge through rough, rich stories, beautiful precisely through the vivid, raw colors.

The volume presents three points of view: of the sponsor, the designer and of the commentator with an architectural background. The beneficiary recalls the meetings with the place: the first, over twenty years ago, at a time when the condition of the mansion and its surroundings was desolate; the next, after 10 years, when the limited partner, together with his wife Cristiana, the rightful heiress of the place, met the spirit of the place; the third, in which they invite the architect to find out what he thinks about the possibility of restoring the domain. The project lasted for 4 years, then the construction site and, finally, the inauguration on June 11, 2011.

The volume is bilingual, in Romanian and Italian. The author of the book, Marinela Vasilica Ardelean, said that this book is "a cultural, social and economic exchange between the two countries." She stated that in order to make the bilingual volume, she met again with the Romanian language, because the passages are not translations from one language to another, considering that the Italian language is "untranslatable". The author stated that, in the future, she wants to write a book in which 50 Romanian wines will "meet" 50 Romanian dishes.

The volume brings together the result of an extensive photographic documentation signed by Șerban Bonciocat, but includes the plans of the monuments and a chapter that addresses the influences to and from this architectural program. The introductory study of Prof. Dr. Corina Popa and the texts of the architect Cristian Brăcăcescu manage to frame the cul-de-sacs in a broader cultural perspective.

Land of the "răzeși and merari", of a refined peasant aristocracy, the people of Rădășeni bear fruit from the "kernel essence of the creature". Grigore Ilisei points out that the people of Rădășeni "remained in their core essence of the creature linked to the great and noble tradition of the village", refining themselves with "the aroma of a peasant aristocracy". The album includes the valuable images of the two churches in Rădășeni immortalized by Dan Hatmanu, as well as the artistic photographs with landscapes "at the time of the harvest".

"Virgil Nemoianu's entire work as a critic, comparator and philosopher of culture - and especially the two synthetic works, "A Theory of the Secondary" and "Imperfection and Defeat", contained in this volume - is an eloquent testimony that the author did not settle in the United States to enlist with mimetic enthusiasm in the fashionable intellectual and political movements. With a solid formation, built even in communist Romania, where a “learning ethos” functioned, however, despite the restrictions of the unique ideology, a group that only strengthened and expanded the excellent fitted libraries of the West, Virgil Nemoianu did not hesitate to manifest, in the country of adoption, his own options and to cut his own themes, imposing himself in the American academy as an eminent teacher and as a reference author." Mircea Martin

"This volume brings together forty-one conversations of Virgil Nemoianu, made between 1990 and 2017, with Romanians of several generations. Two of the discussions became books, the others appeared previously in periodicals and volumes. We have a cultural, intellectual radiography, ideological, political and historical - both dialogical (Bahtin) and dialectical (Hegel) - of Romania and of the world. But also of the interlocutors themselves, of the environments from which they come, of the horizons towards which they tend. " Sorin Antohi

"[...] Doinaș is one of the few Romanian authors who embodies an authentic and vital historical continuity between 1938 or 1947 and 1989 or 1991, a unifying bridge. I can't help but believe that this potential of national cultural-historical significance, this the potential for harmonization, restoration, healing in the background, was not perceived, in a clearer or more vague way, by many." Virgil Nemoianu

"This volume (Romania and its liberalisms) has two purposes. The first is to outline the way an expatriate sees, from a distance, the socio-political developments of the last ten years in his native country, in non-native literature. I have become accustomed to the idea that there are "multiple readings" of the text. I believe that the same is true at the more general level of culture and civilization." Virgil Nemoianu

Analyzing a wider spectrum of writers of English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other writers of Eastern European origin, Virgil Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This is called the era of domestication of romanticism.

In the book, Rusell Kirk analyzes Edmund Burke in an attempt to draw attention to the moral and imaginative abilities of the human being, which are more powerful than instinctual abilities. The book is very interesting, it talks about education, what liberalism means and what moral imagination actually means.

"Democracy in deficit is one of the first comprehensive attempts to apply the principles of analysis of public options to macroeconomic theory and policy. The central preoccupation of the book was to examine the simple precepts of Keynesian economics through the prism of the theory of public options, it paving the way for the modern theory of the economic-political cycle. The analysis of public options is in stark contrast to the early analysis of Keynesians and monetarists, who assumed that economists were outside and above politics, giving politicians and central bankers advice that would be adopted automatically. This approach to macroeconomics is outdated today by works such as , interested in the rules of fiscal and monetary policy called upon to guide long-term monetary policy.” Robert D. Tollison

The volume proposes a series of thematic dialogues with 20 personalities whose voice has made its presence felt, more and more strongly, in the public debate and in the political life in Romania of the last two decades: Monica Macovei, Sever Voinescu, Teodor Baconschi, Cristian Preda, Traian Ungureanu, Mihail Neamţu, Dragoş Paul Aligică, Ioan Stanomir, Marius Lazurcă, Ionuţ Popescu, Radu Paraschivescu, Dan C. Mihăilescu, Mircea Mihăieş, Cosmin Alexandru, Sebastian Lăzăroiu, Cătălin Avramescu, Sorin Ioniţă, Cristian Ghinea, Bogdan , Vitalie Ciobanu.

"Creating and maintaining a social order built on freedom and for the freedom of the human being is one of the greatest challenges that the human intellect must face. For hundreds of years, many Western thinkers have been trying to meet this challenge. Through their efforts, over time, an intellectual tradition has crystallized: the tradition of freedom. And a doctrine: classical liberalism. The "Culture of Freedom" collection aims to familiarize the Romanian reader with this tradition, but especially to connect him to the contemporary debates that are claimed from its spirit." Valeriu Stoica, Dragoş Paul Aligică

"Liberal democracy, as a political system, is based, above all, not on those who are elected, on politicians, but on those who choose, on citizens. The most important actors in the democratic political game are the citizens, not the political leaders. It is always a huge burden to choose and decide. But these are the essential elements of our freedom." Valeriu Stoica

The test of each camp facing to define the spirit of the new right will be given by the ability to convince others that its variant is the most viable, that it proposes the intellectual vehicle capable of responding to the historical challenges of the moment, thus proving the ability to move forward in the new millennium the national project and the European family.

"The power and the struggle for power are constants of history. Only the sources, tools and ways of organizing [it] are different, as well as the rules according to which the struggle for power takes place. Even if power is seen as an evil, any serious observer of society must admit that this evil is necessary. And if it was said that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, it was answered that the absence of corrupt power at least to the same extent "- Valeriu Stoica, Sfera politicii, no. 5/1993.